In a meeting with reporters Tuesday evening, lawmakers continued to frame the EPA-blocking bill as one that would halt the rise in gas and electricity prices and roll back what many see as an unprecedented power grab by the EPA.

“The last thing we need to do is raise energy prices as we stumble our way into recovery,” said Upton. “If [the regulations] go forward, you could see gas prices jump another 30 cents or so. That’s not something we need.”

Upton also dismissed concerns that the legislation is an all-out attack on the Clean Air Act, calling that argument a “red herring.”

Whitfield took a harder line with the EPA, saying “we want to send a message that Congress is reasserting itself into the environmental arena…that we’re not simply going to sit back and allow decisions to be made by courts and people who work in government, particularly when Congress has said ‘no’ on three occasions.”

This piece of legislation goes farther than any other bill that has been floated in recent months to deal with EPA regulations. Among other things, it would permanently stop the agency from implementing regulations specifically to stop climate change. It would also clarify that the Clean Air Act was not intended to address climate change at all.

Additionally, it would prevent California from getting special waivers to set their own emissions standards for tailpipes after 2017.

Republican Rep. John Sullivan of Oklahoma, who was also present at the meeting, rebuked the Obama administration for supporting regulations that would raise utility rates and gas prices.

“If something like this were to go into effect, every household in America would be taxed more,” said Sullivan. “This is an asinine thing to do right now.”

Upton also introduced a list of 21 new co-sponsors to the bill Tuesday night, all Republicans. When the bill was first introduced, it had three Democratic co-sponsors.

So far, there is no word as to when the full House will take up the measure.

When asked about the Senate version of the bill, introduced by Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, Sullivan said he expected their mark-up to be sometime in April.

“But he’s got [Sen. Barbara] boxer to deal with!” exclaimed Sullivan.

Under the Democrat-controlled Senate, passage of the EPA-blocking bill is less than assured.

Her neck is the same width as her head. Truly, she actually looks like an idiot.

hologram5

This is a good start, remove and disban all Czars and their cronies. Revoke all powers given by executive order to these animals and job killers.

reasonsjester

One of the first things I am truly excited about politically out of the Republicans. They should take similar steps against the FCC, and sick Darrell Issa on how Obamacare was passed. (The demonstrable fraud and the Congressional Black Caucus shenanigans.)

kingfish

Couldn’t happen to a more anti-American agency, which was busily using new cooked-up regulations to proceed with CAP & TRADE shutting down all the current and new clean-coal plants which provide 50% of America’s electricity and heat. They proceeded in doing this DESPITE no CAP & TRADE law having been passed. It caused rolling blackouts across TX, to include their hospitals. TX even tried and failed to buy electricity from Mexico. THIS IS AN ANTI-AMERICAN AGENDA.

Obama does NOT care whether you or your children have heat or electricity at your house. He needs the prices to skyrocket, so Americans will be subject to CARBON TAXES from the carbon corporation already set up in Chicago by Al Gore, Maurice Strong. Their scheme FAILED when all those university papers were EXPOSED to be FALSE.

To attack Americans from ANOTHER ANGLE, Pastor Lindsey Williams says the mid-east crisis was created DELIBERATELY by the elite (Rockefellers again plus oil magnates) to bring America to its knees (they’ve already bankrupted us with the BAILOUTS) with a LACK OF OIL, food, and dollar collapse. They fully intend to invade ALL the mid-east countries, to include Saudi Arabia. The “rebels” are CIA and other nationalities. THEN, after they’ve brought the U.S. to its knees, they’ll open 4 new oil fields in the U.S. at over $200 barrel when it only cost $16 to produce.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-ejWiDuVEc Part 1 of 2

kingfish

and Americans will be so poor and destitute we’ll be “begging” for the NWO according to their plan.

“Under the Democrat-controlled Senate, passage of the EPA-blocking bill is less than assured.”
Well don’t worry guys, we the people will fix that problem next November. We the people MUST rid congress of all liberal democrats. Throw out these parasites who think that their job in congress is to think for the rest of us. We must return America to it’s rightful place in the world, as it’s leader.